Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/03

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Subject: [Leica] Is the TE a zoom?
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sun Feb 3 21:26:50 2008

Hi,

The TE is not a continous zoom.
The WATE however is. 

Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema


> Datum: 04/02/08 12:51 AM
> Van: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
> Aan: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> CC: 
> Onderwerp : RE: [Leica] Is the TE a zoom?
> 
> I think the way the cams move and therefore the order of the Fl is not
> really relevant..... it is the way it was designed to move...and keep in
> mind the TE and the WATE are marketed for 3 FL only.  So why make the opto
> mechanical arrangement more difficult and complex?
> 
> Look at some recent zooms and you see really weird movements as you change
> FL or distance.
> 
> OTOH, Henning is usually right........
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> >
> 
> It's even easy to tell the TE can't be a zoom because the order of 
> focal lengths is: 28-50-35. Can't have a zoom with that arrangement.
> 
> -- 
>     *            Henning J. Wulff
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